Author: KERN, J.D.H. Title: De schrik der Zuidzee. Leven en daden van een vrijbuiter uit den tegenwoordigen tijd.
Description: Zutphen, Schillemans & Van Belkum, (1893). Original pictorial red cloth. With plates by Joh. Gehrts. 448 pp. First edition. - Dealing with William Henry "Bully" Hayes (1827/1829 - 1877) a notorious American ship's captain who was engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s. Hayes operated across the breadth of the Pacific Ocean from the 1850s until his murder on 31 March 1877. He has been described as a South Sea pirate and "the last of the buccaneers".
Keywords: Pacific maritime history piracy
Price: EUR 104.50 = appr. US$ 113.58 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 37297